Render Nodes on both WIN and MAC possible?

[silanbekjarov]

Hi there, have all the latest nodes installed on all machines but the version of the mac render node (latest from downloads) is different then the rest. it say its 10.00.3 (8). Is it not possible to use mac as a render node in mix with windows?

Cheers and have a nice day,
Silan

[frankmci]

For years, we ran combined Mac/Windows/Linux boxes on our little in-house Octane farm. Unfortunately, the new Apple CPU/GPU has broken Octane's cross-platform network rendering, at least for the time being. It was originally planned that Octane would continue to be platform agnostic, but it seems that it has been harder to accomplish than anticipated. I don't think we have been given any definitive word as to whether or not network rendering with Apple GPUs is still an intended feature. The developers themselves may not even know.

We have since converted our Intel Mac render machines to Ubuntu boxes, and they still work fine as network render nodes running NVIDIA GPUs.

[silanbekjarov]

hey there, thanks for sharing and taking the time out of your day to reply. helped very much.